Although store-bought food is readily available in great variety, many Inuvialuit continue to eat more nutritious and less costly country foods and to hunt and fish for a good part of their diet.

Consuming country foods is important to Inuvialuit identity, and the culmination of a series of cooperative activities - harvesting, processing, distributing, and preparing - that require behaving in ways that emphasize Inuvialuit values of cooperation, sharing, and generosity.